The Number and the Siren Paperback / softback
by Quentin (Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne) Meillassoux
Paperback / softback
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A philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarme's poem "Un Coup de Des."A meticulous literary study, a detective story a la Edgar Allan Poe, a treasure-hunt worthy of an adventure novel-such is the register in which can be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other.
Quentin Meillassoux, author of After Finitude, continues his philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity, and eternity through a concentrated study of Mallarme's poem "Un Coup de Des," patiently deciphering its enigmatic meaning on the basis of a dazzlingly simple and lucid insight with regard to Mallarme's "unique Number."The decisive point of the investigation proposed by Meillassoux comes with a discovery, unsettling and yet as simple as a child's game.
The Number that "can be no other" can only be revealed to us via a secret code, hidden in the "Coup de des" like a key that finally unlocks every one of its poetic devices.
Thus is also unveiled the meaning of that siren, emerging for a lightning-flash amongst the debris of the shipwreck: as the living heart of a drama that is still unfolding. With this bold new interpretation of Mallarme's work, Meillassoux offers brilliant insights into modernity, poetics, secularism, and religion, and opens a new chapter in his philosophy of radical contingency. The volume contains the entire text of the "Coup de des" and three other poems, with new English translations.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Sequence Press
- Publication Date:06/04/2012
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- ISBN:9780983216926
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages
- Publisher:Sequence Press
- Publication Date:06/04/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780983216926